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Shigeyoshi Inoue was the captain of the Eldridge. Once a Special Corps colonel, he was temporarily given this position by the Technology Research Headquarters, with the special assignment of 'eradication'.[1]
During the transfer of Deus's cores and the Zohar, despite being in suspended animation, Deus activated and used the sealed Zohar to hack into the ship's mainframe. Seeing this, Shigeyoshi Inoue and a trio of system operators began a plan to use the Eldridge's systems to stop Deus.
Xenogears Intro
The Eldridge crash.
As Deus began to draw the Eldridge into space displacement mode and set the coordinates for "the main planet", Captain Inoue is alarmed. After his call to the engine room to start the emergency sealing system goes unanswered, Inoue sees the screens fill with the words 'You shall be as gods.' He immediately ordered his crew to begin evacuating the ship's passengers.
The crew's evacuation efforts failed as Deus used the Elridge's weaponry to destroy the escape shuttles in mid-flight. Before Deus assumed complete control over the vessel, Inoue initiated the ship's self-destruct system as a last effort, and the Eldridge exploded over an uncharted life-sustaining planet.
Aside from a single child named Abel, all passengers and crew aboard the ship perished.
Trivia[]
The captain's (presumed) family.
- Some fans theorize that Abel is Shigeyoshi Inoue's son, meaning the girl and the woman in the photograph would be Abel's family. However, this has not been confirmed in any media.
- The portrayal of the captain's family during the opening of the game is inaccurate, as their actual designs are shown in Perfect Works. This is likely an animation error.
- The captain's name is only revealed in Perfect Works. In the game, he is unnamed.
- Likewise, the "main planet" mentioned is only confirmed in Perfect Works to be Lost Jerusalem, which has a similar status as the one in Xenosaga's timeline.[1]
- His name is almost certain to be a reference to Shigeyoshi Inoue, an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.